The new Microsoft Surface Pro tablet hasn't been on the shelves long and we are already getting tips that the tablet is sold out everywhere. Even for customers who pre-ordered the Surface Pro from local retailers.

One reader pre-ordered his at the local Best Buy only to learn that the store only received three units. Similar experiences were reported at other retail locations such as Staples with very limited supplies of the new Windows 8 tablet being delivered for launch day. Some stores are getting plenty of the 64GB models but no 128GB models which appears to have the greater demand.

To add to the short supply, the Surface Pro is also a hard find at Microsoft retail stores and online, the 128GB model is already out of stock. The 64GB model is currently in stock but who knows how long that will last.

We have a Microsoft Surface Pro area set up here in the Windows Phone Central forums for all the chatter on the Surface Pro. Feel free to head over their to share your successes, frustrations and questions on the new Windows 8 device.

Funny, met a guy at the airport heading to China and told him about my Surface debacle and he said the same thing! Maybe I should get the red "year of the snake" special-edition touch cover to commemorate my experience? :-D

All those pseudo press experts are loaded with Apple stock and honestly believe that Apple has some sort of future in technological leadership in a post Steve Jobs area. But if you look at the facts Apple has become a media consumption goods manufacturer. Clearly their negative reviews of the Surface Pro have held Staples and Best Buy back on ordering "normal" launch quantities. I was never a fan of the Surface, not because of the hardware, but because of the app ecosystem. Clearly, an iPad or Android Tablet has not 1/2 of the applications available that we can use on the Surface Pro of Samsung Ativ-S Pro or... other Windows 8 Pro Tablets. And consumers are not dumb, a Surface Pro replaces a tablet and a ultrabook in one go... Saves us a lot of time and money.

Best Buy store here in Huntsville, Al didn't have any in stock at all. The only ones they received were those who "pre-ordered" the tablet. So i had to also "pre-order" mine as well yesterday evening and should arrive in 5 - 7 days. I asked if them planned to have the tablets stocked, the best buy guy said eventually. It really doesn't matter whose to blame, I'm just disapointed with the whole experience.

I was at the Microsoft Store at Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, GA and they had plenty of Surface Pros 128 and 64 for the people that were waiting there. One guy had been waiting there from 5:00 AM. Thankfully, they opened the store early and let us all get one. I was out of there with my 128 before official opening hours. They did run out of Type Covers though. I don't know exactly how many of us were there, but it was enough that we were about to have to start lining up as it was getting to be too many to remember who was first and so on... If I had to guess, by 9:30 there were about 30 people there. I was the only employee out of all of the people as well. Keep in mind that Microsoft employees have a hardware refresh coming and I think many of them are looking to get them through that refresh. I called the Perimeter Mall pop-up and they felt that they had enough to make the weekend, however we all see how that ended. That said, I would say that they did say in select Best Buy stores. So, it doesn't surprise me that their inventories were fairly low. I am happy to see the demand. I prefer this to the story of that inventories were low and it didn't sell out. By the way, did I mention that this thing is smokn' fast.

I wanted one but from my checks there has been very low inventory. I went to two different Best Buys and both said they never got any 128GB models, one of them had received two 64GB modes and the other one didn't get any inventory, other than their display units. I then went to the Microsoft Store and they had only 4 of the 128GB models, and sold those quickly, and they had a couple of 64 GB models...all in the store had less than 12 units in total. None of the stores could say when or if they would get more units.
So, I'm probably done with them, first Microsoft/Nokia did the exclusive with ATT on the 920 (I hate ATT) and then they go and launch this device with a very low inventory. They had months to prepare production and get enough units to have a great launch. So, thanks for saving me about $1200 bucks Microsoft. I'm probably now just going to go with a Lenovo at some point...but no rush now.

I walked into the Microsoft Store in Cincinnati OH (Kenwood Mall) on Saturday at 10am. There was no wait, very few people in the store. There was a guy in front of me and behind me in checkout line. All of us walked out with 128 GB Surface Pro units.
So, I was very surprised to read later about lines and selling out.

I live in Columbus and after trying to find a Surface Pro from all the Best buy locations in and around Columbus without success, I called the MS in Cincinnati around around 3pm yesterday only to be told all surface pro 64gb and and 128gb variants were sold out. They could not specifically tell when the next consignment were arriving but only asked me to call in by Thursday.

Best Buy apparently "gets" that there's demand for this. Front page of their website this morning and they are taking "ship to store orders", but of course every BB in the land shows stock "unavailable".

Moaning about low stock at launch is so 1990. Wake up folks. When the economy was hot a new device could be launched with bins full of units, and if it failed, well that was ok because Consumers would snap up the next one in droves and margins were high. This is 2013, and outside of Apple and Samsung hardware profits are marginal. PCs have been commoditized and the Surface Pro is a part of that market. If MS flooded stores with them day 1 even a good launch could result in a huge loss. Order on-line if you are sure you want one. Stores are not much more than showrooms these days .

Just got back from BB took a look at the pro. The damn thig is heavy if you ask me. I know it might just feel that way becasue of the size but my ultrabook feels lighter. So IMOP it's not worth 1000 for me.

In the Knoxville,Tn area Staples seemed to have one 64GB model and no 128GB models. We have two bb here and both were sold out when I went around 5pm to purchase one. One bb said they were gone pretty quick. He didn't say how many they had but he said 5 employees reserved thiers. Both bb's sold out of both models including the display model. One told me they put an order in for 30 to get restocked (128gb)

Lets just say that MS could meet demand and every store had hundreds of units, wouldnt that finally push the oems over the edge? I mean you people do realize MS built thier own factort in china to build hardware exclusively for MS dont you? That being said, i was told i could upgrade my rt for the pro and would get %80 percent trade in value!!!

Let us think about this, yes that would be true, but given they just sold 1m x 1000, that is a cool billion, any more, and you risk product launch failure or stamping on the oem's, someone on another thread said Canada and the USA got 1 million units, from digitimes archives he said.

I was just beginning to slightly regret going with the x1 carbon touch in lieu of SPro, but I suspected something like this would happen. I was psyched to get a L920 but after not being able to find any gave up and moved on. I was psyched to get a Surface only to find Pro would be released months after Rt (and now more waiting). I'm likely passing on this too. I'm rapidly moving to the don't announce if if you aren't ready to sell it camp. Meaning more than single digit unit availability at a store.

When major retailers that are supporting the product get less than five units to sell on launch day, it should not be considered a high demand success. It's a supply failure. I planned on selling my iPad 4th-Gen to get this, but now I am left waiting ...
I love how it was reported that they sold out so quickly ... of course they did, they only have 5,000 of the 128GB units to sell througout North America.

I have a friend that's a Windows rep at BestBuy in south Florida, and she told me that her store didn't even receive any devices. Strange considering her store is the busiest in the district. Seems like Microsoft needs to step their game up.

Apple has changed the product launch forever. Every manufacturer now has to think about how it looks on day one. Undersupply and not meet demand? Fiasco. Oversupply and look like a fail? Major fiasco. To risk undersupplying demand is generally the safer bet.

wait so let me get this straight some stores had 2 and sold out almost instantly, yet people are reporting that other stores still have some in stock. So does that mean some best buys cant get rid of the 2 they got . Lmao

Stores place the orders based on the demand that they expect to see. I guess they could have based the demand for the pro on speculative rt sales numbers , or been stupid enough to listen to all the negative reviews found on supposed tech sites such as all things not Microsoft, i mean d, who have there own agenda. I guess we will never know.

Sometime last week, while I was in the mall, I went to the MS store to pick up a reserved ticket for the Surface Pro. I was planning to go and get mine as soon as the store openes, at 10:00 AM. Thanks to Nemo wintet strom, by the time I shoveled the driveway and got to the mall, it was past noon. There were no lines, so I figured the launch was not a big success. After walking around for a while, I asked for the SP 128. I was told they were sold out of all the 128s. That's when I showed the reserved card, then they called their manager, and I was told they held some for the reserved card folks and I was finally allowed to buy one. I was happy and I love this baby. I am posting this from my Surface Pro.

Well, once everything has settled, it looks like a fair majority of folks went home disappointed today. So maddening that anyone with a single grain of marketing savvy could have properly gauged demand, yet someone there at Microsoft made a decision to stock Microsoft stores with a lot of Pros and then give scraps to the retailers. Is it any wonder why the retailers treat Microsoft things like a 2nd class citizen?

Our local Best Buy is the exception. They took the considerable effort to move both the RT and the Pro from the neglected mobile-phone endcap where they were last week to the FRONT table of the "Mostly Apple" laptop and mobile devices section. They for some reason failed to put colorful touch covers on them and instead had the RT in the non-eye-catching black, but at least they made a serious "Launch Day" attempt.

So, for their efforts, they got... Egg in the face. One of the workers overheard their GM talking sternly to someone purportedly in the supply-side, asking where all of the Surface Pro pre-orders that they sold were, because they #$%* sure weren't on his 6 AM truck as they were supposed to be. I got the feeling after talking to him and having him profusely apologize to me that he felt "used" and he was NOT happy about the image hit his store was taking.

I really feel sorry for Panos and the Surface Team. Here they finally produce something that is for once marketed in a somewhat noticeable way and people are ready to shell out money for on Day 1... Only to watch their superiors screw it all up for them. Extremely poor execution resulting in angry customers like me-- and I'm not one who angers easily.

We can only hope they learn and surface pro 2 has more stock, as well as getting new surface pro stock out quickly, panos tweeted 3 hours ago they are excited by the response, apologizes for customers not able to get one, and they are working to get supply out as quickly as possible

Sometimes it feels like Microsoft is not aware what happens in retail and lives in this imaginary world where they think that everything they do is just fantastic.

Everyone was giving Google crap for the Nexus 4 stock but here you have people willing to spend upwards of $1000 and the company doesn't have enough stock to sell? It is bad business not to mention the bad experience that people had.

I was finally able to order a 128GB from MS Canada. Not sure about ship date as I received an email apologizing for a "revised ship date" but the text is all garbled. Microsoft's ordering system is kind of shaky at best. Fingers crossed.

My surface pro wont work with the keyboard sometimes... I have to shutdown, restart it, and then it might work. If it works, and then i remove the keyboard, it stops working when reconnected... Does anyone else experience this?

Wanted to check the new touch covers at my local staples, but they had none of the new ones, guy even went to the back to check, but none in sight.
Then went to The Weschester MS Store, at 11am the store was nearly deserted, saw a few people buying a Surface, they had everything in stock, very helpful staff.
Did not notice any stock shortage, but by the time I was leaving the Mall at 3pm the MS Store was packed, so who knows. Seems like most people slept in for the roads to be cleared.

I can say with 100% certainty that the stores (at least best buy) are not responsible. I have a buddy who works in upper management in the Twin Cities who informed me that the stores were instructed to just keep taking preorders but without making any guarantee about availability due to them not know how many the stores would be receiving. Apparently there is a rep from Microsoft that is spearheading the retail distrobution. So the guy who is blaiming the stores, can stop.

I skipped yorkdale and went to Eaton Centre instead. Besides if you reserved with them they would set aside your order and guarintee that you would get it. Kind of ironic that the kiosk was more organized and streamlined than the actual MS store

First, no need for the invective. No one called you names. Second, his point is well taken that some posters are imagining conspiracies, incompetance, and who knows what all concerning the availablility of the Surface Pro. I was lucky enough to get one on launch day, but if I hadn't that would be OK too because it will be for sale for lots of days after February 9, 2013 as well. Third, there are lots of reasons for the shortages. Examples: no one, and I mean no one, in business manufacturers more product than they believe they can push in a specifc period of time. The costs are too great and while the margins on the Surface are believed to be higher than those of your typical Windows notebook (for all we know), Microsoft is still not going to make more of this product than they believe they can sell over a given period. Also, the Surface devices are coming from a new manufacturing facility and mark a new product line for Microsoft. I am sure there are lots of bugs to work out of that process. And, retailers order products, manufacturers don't just ship stuff. So, for all the complaining here about 1 and 2 and 4 units at a specific Best Buy, what we really don't know is what number of units did each regional manager of those stores make? They were probably told supply would be tight and made their orders based on that information and their own estimation of likely sales. And keep in mind that there may be plenty of fault on Microsoft's part here (we really don't know that) but Best Buy isn't exactly known of late for its retail prowess either. Personally, my choice for a retailer for Surface would be college book stores, Target and Costco.

Man, it really gets old all the retailers selling out of all the popular electronic devices the day off release. I mean isn't there someone in these huge multimillion/billion dollar companies that can properly analyze the demand and accurately stock stores for it? I mean Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc etc. It gets really old. I'm sure the are trying to build up hype, but dammit do it by giving submitting a press release with the ridiculous numbers of units they sell. Its almost like they only put a few out there in fear that if they flood stores and don't sell out, they will look like a failed product, at least for Microsoft. /vent

This is indeed sad. Microsoft really needs lessons FAST from Apple's marketing team. It is the same story with every product they have relased lately. Seems like they don't have faith in their own products. They also need better commercials. I have yet to see a commercial highlighting what Surface is able to do. Read this guy's story, I would be mad too.: http://www.allthatnerdystuff.com/2013/02/09/editorial-microsoft-complete...

It almost feels like at MS a bunch of clueless amateurs is running their consumer marketing campaign. I'm just surprised that Xbox has achieved its present level of success. MS, we know you can build great hardware, so just stop shooting yourself in the foot and hire better (read Apple) marketing people and double their salaries if necessary. It's becoming a question of life and death. You're an underdog, so you have to move faster and be more creative.

A friend and coworker of mine went to the MS Store in Minneapolis today to try and buy us some Pros for work. He said they were sold out of all Pros within 10 minutes of opening He was told by an employee that they had 500 Pros to begin with and that many people were buying 2 - 3 at a time. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to get us any and said there were about 400 pissed off customers at the store.
Our local Best Buy in Madison, WI got one Pro this morning which was gone instantly. They didn't even get a display unit. The sales associate said he's been getting calls all day asking about their availability and literally told me "Good luck finding one!" because they showed none in stock anywhere.

Total farce. Who in the hell would be buying 2-3 surface pros??? Economic idiots! Some morons will pay a premium on eBay for one, in a month, the Pro will be next to the RT on the shelves at Costco....

I got the last 128GB one at the Microsoft Store this morning in Santa Clara... I feel bad for the 100+ people in line behind me and for all the people who didn't get one today. Also, seeing the Apple people looking into the Microsoft store from across the way was pretty funny. Device envy. Mwahahaha
Maybe if someone offered me the right amount of money I would part ways with my new favorite toy...

I got mine today, 128 and it is awesome. I'm sad about the supply though, there was a TON of people in line waiting at the M$ store here in Denver, CO. I love the thing though. I really enjoyed all the iPhone users in line waiting with me, everyone was psyched! I can't wait to start using this at work, projecting and all. This is a really cool device.

Yeah, lot's of Microsoft supporters and insiders left today with a very hollow feeling. Here I sit on an flight without one when I had been anticipating fighting off the "What is that?" questions. This is where Microsoft fails on the marketing front. Apple announces a product and then swiftly gets it into the hands of retailers ASAP to satisfy both the craving for the device AND to have the hordes show off their product in the "Hey, is that the new iPad?" way. See, they GET IT. Let's says for the sake of argument that some poor soul at Microsoft made the poor decision to create the infamous "artificial demand". Well, I'd wager everything that they have lost more today through the disappointment of Microsoft folks like myself and my company and the missed opportunity of having us market your flagship tablet TODAY on the launch date. If indeed it was a planned move, whomever made that decision must subscribe to the dubious Jerry Jones statement that "all press is good press".

It's hard to gauge because I think there are 3 types of audiences here. The first is us who have paid attention and anticipated its launch. The second is those who don't know anything launched today because there was no press that it would. And last is those who know it was coming out this weekend but just found out it was sold out. I think your average consumer is in the last category. But I can almost guarantee you that it being sold out today will not hit the local or national news, unlike the ridiculous ipad coverage.

I just went to Microsoft store and yes sold out and many people who gotten it our happy. I told them why not get a iPad. The person iPad is boring and not good for business use. Yup I totally agree what he said.

Dude! WTF! all the Best Buys and Staples don't even have it. I have a reservation and they (Best Buy) don't even have it. What upsets me even more is that they have a display model just to piss people off.

The ms store I went to had no idea how to run a launch. It took them years to get one group in and out and they didn't tell anyone they might sell out until right before it happened. I mean literally no one counted and prepared anything. It was silly.

I bought 2 of the 128G today at the Orlando Store. There was a line of well over 100 people when they opened. When we left the mall 3 hours later, there was still a line. THe first 100 people where gone within 30 minutes of the store opening.

Preordered mine from the microsoft store at the glendale galleria. They were not supposed to open until 10 but when I got there at 930 they were selling them already. Got my 128 but no hdmi display adapters though.

I called the MS store near me just out of curiosity. The manager there said the only places that have any left are the ones that were closed due to weather in the northeast.
Hopefully they get this worked out before it works against them and people start buying other products out of frustration with Microsoft.
As one of the apparently lucky few who got one today, I have to say it is worth waiting for - if they at least give some indication of how long that wait will be.

Not necessarily.... If the initial supply was extremely low, that is no indication of a product's demand. MS is a multi-billion dollar company. They know what they're doing. There is absolutely no reason for this product to be out of stock nationwide. This is a sad attempt to give the impression that this product is in high demand. When the final numbers come in, it'll only look worse for MS. They should have marketed as an elite product, made enough for all the die-hards and let us do the free marketing for the next release. To go through this fiasco and ultimately find out that they'll sell far less than the RT is embarrassing at best.

What stores? Why would a particular store be at fault? BB and Staples don't even know what they would initially receive or what to expect in the next few days... The supplier is ALWAYS at fault for things like this. IT'S THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO ANTICIPATE DEMAND. It's like blaming your local grocery store for being out of lettuce or oranges.

Before I went to bed last night, I logged on to order the 128, but I was wavering about having it delivered on Monday or picking it up today or tomorrow in person. Duh! By the time I logged back in, it was out of stocl on MS Store, BB and Staples and every Microsoft Store in our area, and within about 2 hours drive, is also sold out. My mistake, and I'm surprised. But why can't I order one from MS and get it as soon as its available? I hope this clears up soon.

Just imagine the frustration for us Microsoft Partners, who arguably would have been the ideal salespeople for these tablets. Asked about the possibility at every conference I attended this year of Microsoft offering the 128 Pro to us to Beta and otherwise get "Wow, what is that?" marketing going pre-release. We serve large clients and are somewhat visible in our space and people respect our opinions on tech purchases as it's part of the value we offer them. Apparently no one at Microsoft is forward-thinking enough when it comes to non-Enterprise. This is hard for me to say, because we drink the Microsoft Kool-Aid when it's sweetened enough-- but this is a debacle when you consider you had tons of people demanding this product ala "iPad" and the press will now have a field day about how Microsoft dropped the ball. Was this a logistics snafu, a supply-chain issue, a lack of interest with Best Buy or Staples, or a combination of both?

The lack of a Super Bowl ad showing how the Surface Pro can replace your iPad and you laptop was really concerning, but perhaps Microsoft got lucky because there would have been even more disappointed folks this morning.

So, as a Microsoft Partner who has plenty of insider info, I followed the pre-order process at my local DFW area Best Buy and noted excitement among the staff about a Microsoft product for once. They literally moved it and the RT onto "The Front Counter" of the normally "iPad section", had it ready to rock yesterday. Then, they get 3 units on the truck this morning, except that they didn't. So all of us pre-order folks left disappointed. I even had my "Ferrari-Red" touch cover pre-purchased as I was leaving on a business trip today and was really anticipating getting to show off my new Surface on the flight.

Yet another missed opportunity for Microsoft. Hope it improves, but I've rarely been this disappointed. :'(

Their stock issues could have easily been resolved by having pre-orders. How could they possibly know how many items to stock with no idea of interest? The only indication they had were the luke-warm reviews, which makes me think they shipped maybe 500 models nationwide! With the RT, you were able to pre-order or at least be put on a list to be informed when the product is available. With the Pro, you couldn't do either. You just have to wait until it just pops up in a store? How stupid is that? Microsoft Stores customer service told me that they're sold out of 128gb models nationwide, yet i haven't heard of 1 Best Buy, Staples, or Microsoft Store having a line (in LA or Chicago) of more than 1 to buy this insanely popular product. Furthermore, how are they planning to gauge need for future stock? You can't place an order for the out-of-stock product on BB, MS, or Staples respective websites?!?!?!? I kinda feel that they'd rather take the heat for the impending low sales because they (intentionally) f'd up the ordering and delivery process, rather than the tepid reviews and overall low interest. They should have sucked it up and produced enough initial products for their die-hard followers, so at the very least, the blogs would be filled with people saying (rightly or wrongly) how much they love his product. But from what I'm reading, they've pissed off quite a bit of loyal fans. Seems to me that this is a Lose-Lose situation for MS.

Every Best Buy I called did not. From calling the same stores today, they tell me that they were taking pre-orders as of this week. That's of no help to those who asked in the previous 3-4 weeks... If I called 3 weeks ago and they said they weren't taking preorders or reservations, why would I call 4-5 days days prior to release to ask again? Where I come from, no means no...

I went to the Best Buy in Franklin, Tn and they were sold out. They only received one. I went to the staples down the street, and they had only received two and sold out this morning as well. Both sites were only getting the 64gb in. It is frustrating. On top of that, the knuckle heads at best buy in Franklin didn't even have the stylus to go with the display model. What is up with that? Arggghhh.

MS Store - South Coast Plaza, CA: It took 2 hours for the store to sellout 50+ units.. with a line of 20+ disappointed customers. People in the back who didn't get one were given a $25 gift card and their names were written down on a piece of paper to receive notice of when the next shipments were coming in. They were not taking pre-orders. No one in the back was impressed at how they took their time to train the people who bought the Surface Pro while others were waiting in the short line only to find out it's sold out a few hours later. The guy in front of me pointed at the Ativ Pro that the MS employee was holding onto and asked if that was on sale because he didn't want to wait anymore.

I don't mind waiting and finding out it was sold out, but the fact that I had to stand in front of a b*tch who was compaining the entire time about how they're going to run out of stock and kept talking about the "asus" iconia w700 with the bluetooth dock was pissing me off. Just go buy the fricken Acer if you didn't want to wait.

Also note that I had gone to the store a few times in person prior only to be told that they did not take pre-orders or reserves. They mentioned it was only for people who were buying this for business purposes got to reserve.

I called that store every week for the last 4 weeks and they said the same thing, but this morning they tell me "you should have reserved one" WTF!!! you weren't taking reservations. Her response, "yes we were", (f'ing liar!!!), so I asked, can you make a reservation now over the phone? "we are no longer taking reservations" WTF!!! Are you purposely trying to make it impossible to buy this damn thing?!

Microsoft doesn't seem like they can do any right these days. You'd think that they would be able to launch their own products properly but it's always a clusterfuck. When was the last time they launched something that was received with great success?

No way. When the 360 first came out, they were selling for twice retail on ebay because they were so hard to find. I literally bought one release day (after reserving and camping out, because they didn't have enough to cover preorders), played it for a week, and sold it used on ebay for $350 more than I payed for it.

Holy smokes, and that came out years ago, I can't believe they launched it with such little stock that you made a profit on a used one wow, kudos, if they screw up Xbox 720 with low stock, means they really haven't learned anything

That's the thing, their business rollouts are fine because it's mostly software but when it comes to hardware they always fail at launching it properly. They delayed the release and yet they're unable to get enough supply for it? This is just another example of how incompetent they've become lately.

That doesn't mean that they weren't affected. In my area, the blizzard was supposed to hit on Wednesday, then it was pushed to Thursday, then to Friday. I'm not privy to the inner workings of logistics companies, but given how bad it was supposed to be when it did hit, those companies may have delayed shipments. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying WP95 may not be wrong either.

Microsoft got scared of all the negative noise coming from some tech writers and played it safe with the amount they released? Or they didn't realize a lot of people wanted a full fledge computer/laptop/tablet variant and that's why the Surface RT may not have sold as many they had envisioned? Or they want to ensure they don't overstock items and have to put it on sale or reduce the price? Whatever, the reason I'm glad to see people are wanting the Surface Pro.

I called like 5 Best Buys in my state. 3 didn't receive a single Pro, and the other two received one 64gb. Oh and I preordered a 128 the morning preorders were available.
All of the Staples around here also got just 1 or 2 64gb.

Apparently only Microsoft stores got relatively decent stock. If only I had one in my state.

I preordered mine from best buy on Thursday and was there at 10am when they opened. There was a line of about 20 people waiting for the surface pro but I was the only preorder. I was out of the store by 10:10am a happy man but I'm sure there were a lot of disappointed people in the North Canton, Ohio area.

Not a single one in stock for starters at local best buys. Just an empty spot on the display shelf next to an RT. To make matters worse, I saw a BB employee not do anything to help a frustrated customer at o e of the other vendor laptops. He was agitated that he could not get to the desktop and couldn't understand why they designed it this way. The employee just shrugged his shoulders.

I pre-ordered one earlier this week with my local Best Buy (Columbia, MD), so I was fortunate to get one today. However, while I was at the store picking mine up, I overheard the sales folks telling many, many would-be buyers that they were already sold out. One employee told me they only got one they could sell to a walk-up customer.
Craziness!

Sacramento is completely sold out at all Staples and Best Buy stores. I actually went into Staples yesterday and asked the guy if there was any chance on him selling me one early. He goes legally he couldn't. I told him I wouldn't narc on him. I left with nothing. Ughhhh.

I preordered mine at best buy and here at the DFW area of Texas the entire area did not receive their shipments because of the storm.. Soo instead I went to staples, I was able to find one 30 minutes away (the only one left in the DFW area) at a staples. Proud owner of a Surface Pro now :D

I have been waiting to get one so I called my local MS store in Danbury Mall CT and they said they were open. I drove there to pick one up only to find out that mall management changed their mind and closed the mall for the day. The MS store store opened because they were told the Mall will open at 1 PM. I guess I'm gonna have to wait another day. Grrrrrrr!

Frustrated and disappointed customer here...no Surface Pro in sight around me anywhere. Am seriously considering the IdeaPad Yoga 13 now as my Win8 device. I can have that delivered to me within a week...who knows how long it will take to get the Pro now...